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FRANCES PASCHER, M.D.; MAURICE N. RICHTER, M.D.; HARRY BELLACH, M.D.; FLORENCE SIMM, B.A.

AMA Arch Derm Syphilol. 1952;66(2):251-275.

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HUMAN marrow has been the subject of intensive clinical investigation since Arinkin¹ introduced the sternal puncture in 1929. The importance of this procedure in the study of blood dyscrasias² has been well established, and its value in the study of cancer,³ renal disease,⁴ hepatic disease,^2a and some of the systemic diseases⁵ has been carefully explored.

Reports on the marrow findings in the leukemias⁶ and in the lymphoblastomata (malignant lymphomata⁷) are of considerable interest to the dermatologist because of the appreciable incidence and the importance of cutaneous involvement in these conditions. The changes in the marrow in generalized sarcoidosis (Schaumann's disease⁸), in malignant melanoma with metastases,⁹ and in congenital hypoplastic anemia associated with multiple skeletal defects and pigmentation of the skin (Fanconi syndrome¹⁰) are likewise of great interest to the dermatologist, since cutaneous involvement may be the principal or initial manifestation in these diseases. The recent discovery by Hargraves¹¹ . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BROOKLYN; NEW YORK; NEW BRITAIN, CONN.

From the Department of Dermatology and Syphilology (Dr. Marion B. Sulzberger, Chairman) and the Department of Pathology (Dr. Maurice N. Richter, Chairman) of The Post-Graduate Medical School of New York University and The University Hospital of New York University-Bellevue Medical Center, New York.

Footnotes
Read before the Section on Dermatology and Syphilology at the One Hundredth Annual Session of the American Medical Association, Atlantic City, June 15, 1951.

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